Roman Abraham

Roman Abraham (28 February 1891-26 August 1976) was a general of the Polish Army during World War II.

Biography
Roman Abraham was born on 28 February 1891 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) to a family of Catholic Poles. He served in the army during World War I, ending the war as a cavalry lieutenant. After Poland gained its independence in 1918, Abraham became an officer in the Polish Army, fighting against the Ukrainian National Republic and the Russian SFSR from 1918 to 1920 as a Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1938, he was given a promotion to Brigadier-General, and he commanded the Wielkopolska cavalry brigade of the Poznan Army during the German invasion of Poland. He led his cavarly unit in an ill-fated charge against the Wehrmacht during the invasion, and he was wounded and captured during the fall of Warsaw. On 30 April 1945, he was liberated from a POW camp by the US Army, and he was allowed to return to the communist Polish People's Republic after the war. He died in Warsaw in 1976.